About american movies. You said: They are naturally uttered, but they are usually scripted (written beforehand) and unnaturally glib. I understood it that: films give good word's pronunciation, but there is grammar mistakes in dialogs. Is it

zhengquan schrieb: The Collins Cobuild English Dictionary pronounces the new way, and ... resource. Can the s-z evolution be attributed to Americanism invasion? My Longman's Dictionary of Contemporary English gives both pronunciations, but

The main reason it that many of the HK ppl are employed by the branchoffice of european company ,and these ppl who can speak both English and Chinese often make mistakes on our Chinese name and they often write the wrongemail address too. Be proud

sci.lang.translation Commercial translation software technologies are getting better and better. Today the software translation errors are very few that a local professional editor of any country can effortlessly correct them in a short time.

Commercial translation software technologies are getting better and better. Today the software translation errors are very few that a local professional editor of any country can effortlessly correct them in a short time. Therefore it's now

BTW, is the usage of American constructions/pronunciation in British English acceptable or is it treated as a mistake? American constructions and pronunciation are no problem in Britain. And if foreigners use these nobody will really notice,

The productive skills (writing and speaking) in general lag behind the passive skills (reading and writing) in normal second language ... bit of French, but writing with the kind of ease you display in English in either language is beyond me. I

Hi All, So many students in my groups have an American pronunciation of lots of words, like basket = (baeskit). ... this American pronunciation? - correct it? - or: point out that the British pronounce a word differently + tell how? The only time

Enrico C wrote on 21 Nov 2004: If you can't hear the pronunciation, then you need better ears, not a teacher. I would like better ears. Funnily enough, I reckon most people need them. I noticed most English people trying to learn Italian, for

Connected speech works just fine. Most people often elide some ... red if they are elided or spoken too quickly, though. OK. But that's elision. What about assimilation? You say that the analysis is at the phoneme level. How would this cope